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India’s Russia Defense Gambit
The uncertainty and possible further disruptions in the defense supply chain out of Russia could accelerate India’s diversification and indigenization efforts.
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Houthi rebels drag India into Red Sea crisis
States are no longer insulated from distant geopolitical realities. As India has witnessed, trade and supply chain linkages can extend conflicts to uninvolved states.
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US 2024 presidential elections: A stocktaking
It seems like the 2024 US election is riding on issue-centric campaigns, given the limited impact of persona from either party.
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Controversies aside, COP28 is a real chance to put Global South at centre
As the world reels from the impact of the hottest year on record in 2023, the attention of the global community turns to COP28 for solutions to the climate challenge. While the previous decades of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiations have failed to deliver effective and equitable climate action, this year’s COP in the UAE is a unique opportunity to move from empty promises to real action.
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Shadows of faith: Jihad, national identity and India’s resilience
The quest for identity seems to be pushing youth towards divisive ideologies.
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Disquiet in the neighbourhood
As Pakistan struggles to prod the Taliban to act on militant groups, its dual policy of supporting extremist groups has come back to haunt it.
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Bullets and bitcoin: Financing conflict
The recent conflicts in West Asia and Europe have brought focus to the complex relationship between cryptocurrency and global affairs.
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China Envisions A New World Order Via BRI
Reaffirming his nation’s commitment to continue pouring billions of dollars into the economies of developing countries as the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) – the “project of the century” – enters its second decade, Chinese President Xi Jinping underlined earlier this week at the BRI forum that “China can only do well when the world is doing well… When China does well, the world will get even better.” More significantly, and perhaps expectedly, he took aim at the West when he suggested that “we stand against unilateral sanctions, economic coercion, decoupling, and supply chain disruption.”
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India, Japan and South Korea should work together to protect shipping
Renewed Middle East fighting highlights energy security vulnerability.
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Seabed warfare, Australia, India & the Indian Ocean
As the Ukraine conflict has shown, critical seabed infrastructure is vulnerable to attack; India and Australia must make a coordinated effort to protect these assets in the Indian Ocean.
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